“Sorry about that”

Last night, I had the first real, major, pregnancy hormone-related meltdown… and it probably scared him a little bit.

When I got home from work, he asked what I was thinking for dinner and I really wanted some kind of shrimp salad. The plan was to unpack, go to Coffee Exchange and blog so he could work on computer stuff, too (internet still hasn’t been hooked up in our new place), then grab some groceries to make food. We ended up at Coffee Exchange until 10:15 and by that time, I was starving. At that time, almost all of the restaurants are closed and it was way too late to start making dinner.

We got in the car, Tom stopped to get an eegee’s sandwich and fries for dinner, and asked me what I wanted. I asked if we could stop at Risky Business since it’s one of the few places open late and I knew they’d have shrimp salads.

“Well, I guess… I just need to wake up really early for work tomorrow.”

“Well if you don’t want to, it’s ok, I’ll just go home and make an egg or something.”

That’s when the meltdown started.

It was silent at first, tears quietly falling down my face as I looked out the window and over the span of 5 minutes, transformed into full-blown heaving sobs.

I don’t even remember what I said while I was crying (something about being hungry and he doesn’t even care, and I had a long day with work and unpacking and all I wanted was a salad, wah wah), but just remember feeling like it was the end of the world. Needless to say, we ended up at Risky Business and he went inside to get me a salad.

While I was sitting in the car, it gave me some time to eat a couple of his eegee’s fries, calm down and realize how absolutely silly the whole thing was. I could see him sitting at the bar, waiting for my to-go order, and called his cell phone.

“Are you taking shots at the bar because your wife is cray cray?”

He laughed and said no

Of course, I apologized and was back to normal after eating my salad, but wow.

I’m embarrassed.

Lesson of the story: Never let your pregnant wife get to the *starving* point. There’s no telling what will happen.

Oh man i always have huge meltdowns when im hungry!! The worst was probably when the boyfriend was visiting me when we were doing the sucky long distance thing and he was leaving the next day and i didnt know when id see him next combined with being starving and the migraine from low bloodsugar, i was bawling my eyes out and yelling at him to drive faster. And this happened a block from my house haha and then of course that made it take longer cause i had to compose myself since i didn’t want to walk into my house such a mess! Needless to say we are both not looking forward to the hormonal aspect of pregnancy!

Oh my god, yesterday I had a super silly meltdown in front of my fiance. He’s taking an accounting class online, and he’s not as tech-savvy as I am, so I told him I would help him print out all the required forms and whatnot, but my printer was being a pain in the ass and not working. I kept trying different things, but it kept telling me that the ink cartridges were missing, when they WERE NOT MISSING. (Obviously, I am still mad at the printer.) Anyway, at the same time, my kitten kept jumping on my desk and trying to play with me. I started weeping like a baby when he scratched my hand and caused it to bleed. I was also hungry at the time, which didn’t help. Point is…I cried over a printer. Enough said. Silly meltdown for sure.

Girl I have crazy meltdowns like that all the time and I’m not even pregnant. At least you have an excuse! 😉 Mine usually happen when I’m really tired, really hungry, or have a paper due soon. If it’s a combination of the three, then you’d better watch out because it’s NOT a pretty sight! 😛

This is pretty embarrassing but I remember when I was 15, my so-called “eating issues” were really bad (aka I wasn’t eating really at all.) I had made a promise to my nutritionist that I would drink a 16oz jamba juice for breakfast on the day of finals and my mom got up super early to pick one up for me while i got some last minute studying in. Anyway, long story short, she bought me an original size instead of a 16oz and I absolutely FLIPPED out. I was sobbing, accusing her of doing it on purpose, refusing to drink any of it at all.

Yup. Good times. Eating disorders do some crazy shizzzz to human’s rational capacities…

Aww! I think this barely even counts as a real meltdown. You were prob so so hungry, plus pregnancy hormones, plus it was LATE! I feel so badly for you! I have had many a meltdown too, and I didn’t have any of those factors to blame it on! I hope that salad was really really good 😉

He he your post made me laugh…..only because I had exactly the same thing this week! My meltdown happened because the power went off around 8pm (a common occurence – we live in Africa), and for some reason our generator didn’t kick in, and as far as I was concerned it was the end of the world! I must have sobbed uncontrollably for over half an hour, even after the lights came back on….and I’m only 10 weeks. I think my hubby is a bit worried about that’s to come – but you’re right, it feels SO weird to be so out of control like that, and yes, embarrasing!!

I had a meltdown of epic proportions when I was 8 weeks pregnant with my first born (a son). I was craving toast. So I put some bread in the toaster. A couple of minutes later they popped up burnt. So I put two more slices of bread in. Again they popped up burnt, I got so upset – my husband found me on the kitchen floor sobbing and asked what was wrong and I wailed “I can’t even cook toast anymore” and continued to cry. Later we couldn’t stop laughing about it – but at the time I was truly devasted.

HAHA!! I felt like I was on the edge of a breakdown SO often when I was pregnant. My husband says I wasn’t that bad but I think I was just quietly seething all the time. Pregnancy is so INTENSE man! So many crazy awesome things and so many things that make you feel like you’re not yourself. I remember going out to eat when I was first pregnant and asking the waiter for the whitest bread possible because the thought of whole grains made me want to puke and normally I’m HUGE into gnarly, seedy, wheaty bread. Took me a long time to get back into whole grains.

Oh I have little breakdowns every now and again and i’m not even pregnant!! Generally around ‘that’ time of the month though so I do have some excuse, right?! I definitely wouldn’t worry too much about them!! Your pilot seems like a sweetie who can more than cope with the odd meltdown!

LOL that is classic!! I remember when i was 7 or 8 months pregnant and my thing was chocolate frozen yogurt. i cant have the reg ice cream because im lactose intolerant, anyway i went in the kitchen and my yogurt was gone! You would’ve thought the entire universe had stopped spinning with how upset i was, like screaming, crying having fits upset. We laugh now but i swear he just looked at me like i was possessed for a couple of hours afterwards.

I am just about 34 weeks pregnant, and I can honestly say I have had three ridiculously absurd emotional breakdowns just this past week….my husband calls them “episodes.” :0) I realize, even in the midst of my sobbing, that whatever I am crying about is often times totally irrational, and that usually makes me cry even harder! Luckily my husband has been very supportive, but I just know he thinks I am all kinds of crazy and can’t wait for this whole pregnancy ride to be over with!

Oh my lord, when DIDN’T I have a meltdown, while pregnant? My hubby tells everyone I’m a CRAAAAAZY lady when I’m pregnant. I remember going to Panera with my first pregnancy (I was on a SERIOUS asiago bagel kick so we went every Saturday morning) and HORROR upon HORRORS…they were completely out of asiago bagels. I had to fight back ANGRY tears and try not to throttle the cashier, my husband, whoever got in my way. LOL

i had a panic attack once while driving back to college my freshman year- I was super stressed due to school/ study abroad/ life in general and the panic attack scared the crap out of me. wasn’t fun! I understand how sometime small at the time can make you feel “cray cray.”

That’s a really cute post. I can relate. I was crying all the time when I was pregnant. Anything would turn on the waterworks. A poignant Oprah episode. The Sarah McLachlan Animal Cruelty commercial. Sarah McLachlan songs in general. There were even moments when I would cry for no reason. Luckily I have a very supportive and understanding husband which it sounds like you do also!

I am 33 weeks pregnant and although I would like to say I haven’t had a TON of emotional meltdowns, I have had a few. The most recent being at the County Fair, not being able to find our family so I could sit down and enjoy my meal. Instead I waited in line with my husband at a different booth for awhile, pouting, almost to the point of tears, and refused to eat a bite of my meal standing there because I wanted to “enjoy it sitting down.” Really the whole episode made no sense and my hubs just had to shrug and sort of look at me like I’m not sure what to do with you right now haha.

It is so funny that at the time these bouts of crazy seem totally warranted and normal, but looking back it’s no wonder they must love us because putting up with those sorts of odd behaviors takes patience!

oh man! bless your heart. you just wanted your salad so bad, lol! i’m a recent reader of your blog, thanks to my best friend’s suggestion, and i’m already a huge fan! your “fit pregnancy” is such inspiration to me since i’m quite the fitness buff myself (and freshly pregs at 13 weeks!) so keep up the good work! you give me (and i’m sure TONS of other women) plenty of motivation! keep up the good work..

This reminds me of my pregnancy melt-down this weekend. My husband always eats his meal super fast and then picks off mine. Typically it is fine with me since I always get more than I can eat. But we had just gone on a hike and I was starving and thirsty. I was eating and literally did not realize that he had finished my chips and most of my drink. Normally this would be perfectly okay. But before I could even think I blurted out loudly and angrily “YOU ATE ALL MY FOOD!” People nearby turned. It was bad and I literally started laughing after as he looked mortified because it was as if the voice came from someone else. Didn’t even realize I was yelling! =) Hungry pregnant women are the worst! =)

I have that meltdown at least once a week! but its after my husband asks “what do you want for dinner?” and I cant decide so i start crying and blame it on him for not being able to make a decision and always having to ask me what i want etc etc.
And then i tell him what i secretly crave… that man is PAY-SHANT!

It’s okay lovely lady!!! And hilarious…thank you for sharing that with us!!!

Husbands are the best…I have had a few food-related meltdowns, usually of a monthly-hormonal relation. Once the blood sugar drops, run for cover…after ten years together he is the first one to jump in the car…

ha! hilarious…i had a similar episode over belgian waffles (can you BELIEVE that nobody in this town makes belgian waffles at 10 p.m.? absurd!). DH went to buy a waffle maker so that he could make me one…and the store was sold out. He couldn’t win. Be so thankful that you have an understanding husband who loves you!

OMGoodness, he sounds just like my hubby. Poor guys are so sweet and patient, and get yelled at when Mama’s hungry. I always feel terrible and apologize after a meltdown too. But we really are lucky that they care so much about us. Anyway, congrats! Your baby is almost full term. Yay!

I’m 21 weeks now and just re-read this post and I’m feeling so much better about my recent meltdowns… it takes so little right now to send me on this careening angry/sad/frustrated path that leads to me being incapable of any rational thought!:
2 weeks ago I had the mother of all meltdowns when we went to pick up our glider (a Christmas present from his mom) from Babies R Us (love that store!). I asked him if he was going to tie it down in the back of the truck and he said, “it’s pretty heavy, it’ll be fine”

of course, as soon as we were going about 60 on the freeway it blew out the back…
and watching him run down the freeway – opposite to traffic – creates a whole new emotional freak out

on the way home, i pointed out that i had indicated to him that we should tie it down and he apologized for not listening me then told me off as I berated him for not EVER listening to me (which he totally does, but don’t tell that to a pregnant woman who is already losing it!). At which point crocodile tears started rolling down my face. I then proceeded to bolt out of the truck in front of our house and lock myself in our room (back to being a teenager much?).

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